Category: Magic in the Water
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The Craft of Writing
When I was much younger…(do you hear the music?)…I dreamed of becoming an Author. I even took English Lit 101 in hopes of honing my writing skills. But my stories were stilted, my characters lacklustre. Instead I turned to writing long rambling letters, first by hand, then on my old Bison 8086 computer, using Wordstar…
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Times They Are A Changing…
Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens went Out of Print a number of years ago. In 2011 (while I was undergoing chemotherapy) a friend helped me photograph all the samples from the book and another friend turned everything into a .pdf file which I have been selling via my website ever since. However, things…
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Times They Are A Changing…
Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens went Out of Print a number of years ago. In 2011 (while I was undergoing chemotherapy) a friend helped me photograph all the samples from the book and another friend turned everything into a .pdf file which I have been selling via my website ever since. However, things…
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It’s Official! (The Big Reveal)
So this is what it has been all about – or half of it, at least. In May a film crew came to Prince George and taped this and The Efficient Weaver, due out in about a month. It was great fun to have Anita and Garrett here (this one was taped in the guild…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Lucky
Sometimes you get lucky. So it was with the knot in this warp. Since the cloth was going to be cut up into samples I didn’t feel like taking the time to fix it – instead I just marked it with a contrasting thread intending to toss it. But instead the knot fell in the…
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Another Milestone – sort of
It’s been a long road but I am at the very end of the tunnel – not quite out of it – yet – but nearly. The intended print run for Magic was 1000 copies. When I ran into some technical issues I capped that at 900, plus 100 abridged copies. The complete copies are…
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Another Mini-Milestone (or two)
This morning I went up to the annex and did some more pressing. The colours of the Fox Fibre yarns are actually a little more intense than shown here – guess the flash wiped some of the intensity out. From the left – 50% green, 25% green, 50% brown, 25% brown, then regular 2/16 unmerc.…